sick fish - white cottony stuff on gills

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I need help identifying this. I don't know if I treat for ick or fungus. There is white stuff coming out of two of my fishes gills. One has a white blob on a fin, but no spotting as with ick. I've seen ick before, and this doesn't look the same, but it could be. I've never seen white in the gills before.
I just did a water change (I do them anyway), and I used melafix until I can figure out what is going on.
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Ich looks like grains of salt. Exactly what does it look like? Does it look like mold on fruit? Is it "stringy"? More info would be helpful including water parameters, species of fish affected, tankmates,etc.
 

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Parameters are:
Gh 8, Kh 11, Ph 8, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate .5, Phosphate 0.
Tank Mates, 7 white clouds total, 1 has clamped fins, the other one has the visible symptoms
4 rosy barbs., look okay, but one was hanging out on the bottom gasping a bit last night.
The stuff coming from the gills looks a little stringy/cottony. The blob on the fin looks like a blob. It still could be early stage ick, but if it is, it hasn't progressed yet.
I did dose with melafix last night, just because I wanted to do something - maybe it helped. So far, nothing looks worse. I don't want to use the chems until I can identify what I'm dealing with.
 
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my fish has stuff comming out of it's gills too. I don't know what it is I've also been putting melafix in my tank but it hasn't really gotten better. Recently I noticed the same fish started getting red eyes... anybody got any idea what it might be? It seems to be breathing hard but swimming normally. It does occasionally scratch. Colors are dull. Best way to describe the white stuff would be that it looks like the stuff at the bottom of a jelly fish. but white.
 
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